A few other highlights from this NRThe metallurgical results are great, but I'd like to just highlight a few other details:
- All core holes drilled into the Saddle target area to date, now totaling 36 including step-outs and step-backs, have returned intercepts of Saddle-style mineralization, as supported visually and by X-Ray Fluorescence ("XRF") readings for gold pathfinder elements such Bi, As, Zn, Pb and Cu.
That means 28 more holes to report on -- i.e. 3.5 times as many as in this NR -- with visual and chemical signs that they are not duds . . .
- In addition to the 8 core holes reported in this news release, a further 28 core holes have been completed or are presently underway, assay results for which will be made public, multiple holes per release, following receipt, QA/QC, and interpretation. Turnaround times for lab assays have been unusually long, but are improving.
Translation: WE WANT THESE OUT!
We believe the very high-grade shoots, one of which the TTD007 intercept evidently has tapped into, may rake down to the southwest within the structural panel. We're obviously going to try to stay onto these shoots and follow them with the drills and, as matters are unfolding, we appear to be succeeding.
No comment necessary.
Inclusive of the 8 holes reported in this press release, 34 HQ-diametre diamond drill holes totalling over 6,500 metres have now been completed at the Saddle South discovery and two at Saddle North (see below), with Saddle South intercepts from drill set-ups spanning 320 metres east-west and as deep as 330 metres (TTD035) down-dip from surface. Within the great majority of these holes, multiple zones display high (hundreds of ppm) to very high (thousands of ppm) XRF values for the key Saddle pathfinder elements As, Pb, Zn, and Cu, which are strongly indicative of gold-silver content.
Awesome! Extension of high-grade mineralization coming up!
And now we wait for results from Saddle North . . .